Beautifully said, Jane. Yes, thank you Teena for all your efforts! Wishing
everyone safety, peace and health during this unprecedented time.
-Lisa
Lisa Rae Lowrey Gonzalez
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"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
-Winston Churchill
-----Original Message-----
From: J B <[email protected]>
To: Ray15 <[email protected]>; Teena <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, Mar 27, 2020 12:05 pm
Subject: Re: [UlsterAncestry] Last Pt. 13 - Potato Blight 1846-49
May I add my voice to what Ray has said? Thank you, Teena! I, too, understand
how much time and dedication this took. Time now to rest your eyes a bit!
Under the current circumstances around our world, there are many reminders in
these articles about how to treat others in hard times.
Wishing all of you good health and the strength of our ancestors to find our
way through the current challenges.
Jane from 🇨🇦
Sent from my LG Mobile
------ Original message------From: Ray15Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2020 7:38 AMTo:
Teena;Cc: [email protected];Subject:Re: [UlsterAncestry] Last Pt. 13
- Potato Blight 1846-49
Wow! Teena.
Firstly: A HUGE thankyou for your transcriptions. I know from long practice
that this is a very time-consuming project. Even ‘just’ the ones on this page
would have taken me one, two, or more weeks to transcribe.
A massive effort on your part, and so many of us know that you have been
providing this unpaid labour of love to us all for decades now. Thank you so
very much.
Secondly: The 8 Sept “1849 Evictions in Ulster” is a real eye-opener for me.
How wonderful to read such an informed and sustained attack on the actions of
one overlord family. And … in posting this, you have indeed provided a great
starting point for anyone who would like to take up the author of the piece, to
undertake the suggested research, in order to discover the end result. Great
information.
Thirdly: As an Australian who is very familiar with many aspects of our
colonial convict history; and of the tales of some of the poor in England who
committed crimes in order to be gaoled and then transported to a hopefully
better life in Australia; it was another eye-opener for me to read this extract
from the Poor Law Commissioners: “ … The gaols throughout Ireland are little
better than auxiliary poor-houses, hundreds of unfortunate creatures having
sought them as asylums preferable to the work houses…. “
That is: whilst I was aware of the commission of crimes in England in order to
be transported; I was totally unaware that some of the poorest of the Irish at
this period, similarly committed crimes in order to avoid the workhouse — which
may have saved their lives in many cases. Fascinating stuff.
With gratitude and thanks.Ray in
Oz.======================================================================================
On 27 Mar 2020, at 3:02 pm, Teena <[email protected]> wrote:
This completes my in-depth look at the effects of the Famine Years 1846-49.
...
8 Sept. 1849 Evictions in Ulster ......14 Sept. 1849 (extracts from) The 2nd
annual report of the Commissioners for Administering the Laws for the relief of
the poor in Ireland
Think of the position of a country of about 8,000,000 inhabitants, with 950,196
of them sustained by rates expensively levied off the property and industry of
the rest. Yet this was the number in receipt of workhouse and outdoor relief on
the 30th Jun. 1849; the date to which the commissioners have brought down their
report. To any one who knows Ireland it is unnecessary to suggest the huge
number of persons that are as poor as those in actual receipt of charity from
the guardians of their unions, but who eke out a miserable subsistence by
begging, by vending small wares, by the wretched wages of occasional
employment, and, finally, by thievery. The gaols throughout Ireland are little
better than auxiliary poor-houses, hundreds of unfortunate creatures having
sought them as asylums preferable to the work houses. …
...
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